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Re: libpq compression

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-06-20T16:25:14Z
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié jun 20 11:49:51 -0400 2012:
> 
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > I looked at the code (apps/ciphers.c) and it looks pretty easy to obtain
> > the list of ciphers starting from the stringified configuration
> > parameter and iterate on them.
> 
> Do you mean that it will produce an expansion of the set of ciphers
> meeting criteria like "!aNULL"?

Attached is a simple program that does that.  You pass 'ALL:!aNULL' as
its first arg and it produces such a list.

> If so, I think we are set; we can
> easily check to see if the active cipher is in that list, no?

Great.

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